higher-order vectors, compression performance

Hello,

I wished to know whether your specification provided for the creation of
vectors which describe other vectors (for instance, the description of a
circle which is then re-used in the description of various ellipses,
etc.). In relation to your request for comments on the description of
fonts and the transfer mode of this information, can you describe fonts
as simply another graphics category (a set of shapes represented by the
curves and lines which make up the characters of a given alphabet)? This
could have the advantage of a smoother evolution in future standards for
information exchange, since each new standard could move dynamically
from a computer's optimal internal representation of information (e.g.
depending on the alphabet(s)  it uses -say cryllic or cryllic and arab,
in order to be able to use an encoding more efficient than Unicode,
though it could then easily be mapped to the latter) to an optimal
representation for a LAN, then a WAN, then the whole internet- a
"bottom-up" approach to new standardisation.
    If you think of human societies, even those speaking the same
(common) language find each subset developing their own specialized
versions best suited to their own professional/personal cicrumstance
(e.g. medical/legal terminology, a married couple referring to
experiences common only to them, etc). This enables each subgroup to
have a language optimal with respect to their needs/particular knowledge
(cognisant capacity), while balancing this with the capacity to
understand other subgroups via the language common to everyone in the
general group. Information communities should work the same way; each
subgroup should adopt as general or as specific a form of a general
standard as is optimal with respect to the nature of the informaitn with
which they are used to treat, as much in terms of future graphics as
with present day language (already done, e.g. with the terms each
technical field uses, etc.).

I was also curious as to the typical compression performance of the
graphic standard your group proposes, as well as the anticipated
timeline for the new versions of programs (e.g. browsers) in widespread
use to incorporate it (e.g. by the end of the year?).




Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Marc A. P. Bernstein
hibou@cybercable.fr

Received on Thursday, 10 June 1999 17:15:27 UTC